Manager Instrumentation and Controls Engineering - Engineering, Gas Power Generation
About the job
- A four-year degree in electrical or mechanical engineering from an ABET-accredited college is required.
- At least five years of progressive engineering experience in gas power generation, including two or more years of leadership experience.
- A valid driver's license and an acceptable motor vehicle driving record are required.
- Up to 25% travel is required, with the amount subject to changing business needs.
- Serve as the company program engineering representative from conception through construction completion of gas generation pursuits, including interactions with business units, equipment suppliers, and balance-of-plant providers.
- Understand client design criteria and intent, and assess evolving client and energy-market design trends, philosophies, and criteria for gas-generation plants.
- Travel to client offices or project sites as required to foster client relationships, share ideas, and solve problems.
- Build an understanding of strategic dynamics in the gas-generation market.
- Coordinate and support engineering activities by developing detailed plans, directing integration of client and company technical activities, and ensuring clients and the company understand process design standards and philosophies.
- Participate in defining the company engineering and gas business plans, goals, and actions for the gas-generation segment.
- Develop and facilitate safety standards for the gas-generation engineering program and company.
- Ensure projects comply with applicable industry standards, including requirements for reciprocating-engine and combustion-turbine installations and fuel-gas systems.
- Serve as the root-cause analysis expert for company engineering and instrumentation-and-controls matters.
- Develop and implement program-management policies, standards, and procedures, including design standards for reciprocating-engine and gas-turbine generating facilities, and establish design-philosophy and criteria guardrails within the company program.
- Own the design basis for power-block instrumentation and controls and coordinate integration with business units responsible for generator and auxiliary electrical design, including protection and generation control, transformers, medium-voltage switchgear and collection, generator protection and synchronizing, station-service and emergency power, grounding and lightning protection, cable and raceway systems, and lighting.
- Own the design basis for balance-of-plant instrumentation and controls and coordinate integration with business units responsible for equipment power; review electrical interfaces for fuel-gas conditioning and compression, inlet-air and filtration systems, lube-oil and cooling systems, water treatment, emissions-control equipment, fire protection and detection, and plant-control-system integration.
- Stay current on technologies and industry practices, identify opportunities to apply suitable technologies, perform economic analysis and value engineering, and recommend cost-effective solutions to procurement.
- Analyze technology, resource needs, and market demands to assess the feasibility of projects and engineering initiatives.
- Create and maintain design-basis document libraries for company segments and ensure procurement managers have current client and scope information before project-estimating kickoff meetings.
- Provide technical support to engineering leads reviewing owner, contractor, and company scopes for completeness, identifying gaps or overlaps, particularly at interfaces among generating-equipment suppliers, balance-of-plant vendors, and company scope.
- Support constructability reviews of engine and turbine power-block layouts, modular and skid-mounted equipment, and preassembled cable and conduit systems to reduce field labor and improve installation quality.
- Support instrumentation-and-controls requirements for plant startup, first fire, synchronization, and performance testing, ensuring commissioning needs are reflected in the design.
- Verify and own complete protection and controls for the power block and balance of plant.
- Act as the escalation point for instrumentation-and-controls commissioning issues, including protection and control settings, monitoring systems, controls testing, and controller interfaces.
- Oversee preliminary engineering through final review of design, installation, and commissioning for power-generation-block and balance-of-plant instrumentation and controls, including hardware and logic redundancy, winterization, control-loop diagrams, instrument-loop diagrams, and controls narratives and logic.
- Own controller communication-protocol and interface design, including the power-block distributed control system.
- Own data-historian configuration and representation of available data points, including internally configured points, and ensure the distributed control system provides points for the historian.
- A registered Professional Engineering (PE) license is strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of reciprocating engines, gas turbines, associated balance-of-plant equipment, and their applications.
- Knowledge of multiple communication protocols and their integration, including MODBUS, Profi-Bus, and Foundation Field-Bus.
- Knowledge of civil, mechanical-instrumentation-and-controls, and electrical-power engineering principles, and familiarity with computer and analytical tools for equipment sizing, construction design, and 3-D modeling.
- Familiarity with tools and programs used for instrumentation-and-controls programming and commissioning, including communication protocols, vibration monitoring, instrumentation programming and calibration, and transformer monitoring.
- Familiarity with Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems specifications, regulatory protocols, equipment, commissioning, and certification.
- Familiarity with emissions-control systems, particularly Selective Catalytic Reduction specifications, regulatory requirements, equipment, controls design, commissioning, and safety compliance.
- Familiarity with engineering standards and best practices for power generation.
- Ability to influence and persuade groups toward common objectives.
- Oral, written, listening, and presentation communication skills for working with owners, vendors, and employees.
About the company
Blattner builds critical infrastructure with a focus on renewable energy projects, using an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) approach to deliver turnkey solar, wind, and storage facilities for utilities and developers. With over 115 years of construction experience, it handles large-scale installations across the United States, drawing on past work in railroads, highways, dams, and mines. Blattner is the parent of Blattner Energy and D.H. Blattner & Sons and is part of the Quanta Services family, which provides broad resources and capabilities. Its goal is to support America’s energy transition by delivering reliable, large‑scale renewable projects and other essential infrastructure.
Company Size
201-500
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Headquarters
Avon, Minnesota
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What believers are saying
- Quanta installed over 6,000 MW in 2025, reinforcing Blattner's backlog and credibility.
- The 2025 three-year Built Robotics agreement expands automation across U.S. solar projects.
- Shoals' 10 GW supply agreement signals sustained demand from Blattner's utility-scale pipeline.
What critics are saying
- Built Robotics dependency deepens if autonomous deployment slips at 15-20 simultaneous solar sites.
- Solar construction concentration ties Blattner to Quanta's capital allocation and project pipeline.
- Any major safety incident on robot-assisted sites in 2026 could delay adoption and contracts.
What makes Blattner Company unique
- Blattner delivered over 80% of Quanta's 2025 solar capacity, showing unmatched EPC scale.
- It repeatedly ranked among Solar Power World's top U.S. solar contractors from 2020-2026.
- Blattner industrializes utility-scale solar with autonomous robots and standardized construction workflows.
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Quanta leads in solar installation capacity. Posted on July 21, 2026 | 2 min. read AVON, Minn., July 21, 2026 - Blattner's parent company, Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE: PWR), earned the top spot on Solar Power World's 2026 Top Solar Contractors list after installing more than 6,000 MW of solar capacity in 2025. The rankings, published annually by Solar Power World, recognize the leading solar contractors across the United States. Quanta's top ranking reflects its growing impact on the U.S. energy market. In 2025, Blattner delivered more than 80% of Quanta's solar capacity, helping reinforce its position as the most experienced EPC contractor in utility-scale renewable energy construction. Blattner appeared on the Top Solar Contractor list independently as No. 1 in 2020, No. 2 in 2021 and 2022, and as part of Quanta when the company was ranked No. 1 in 2023, No. 4 in 2024 and No. 1 in 2025. Quanta's Press Release, "Quanta Services Named 2026 Top U.S. Solar Solutions Provider by Solar Power World" 2026 Solar Power World Story, "2026 Top Solar Contractors List showcases veterans of dominant energy industry" 2026 Solar Power World Top Solar Contractors List
Fort Worth Court of Appeals affirms TC summary judgment for contractor in third-party liability case. The Fort Worth Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order granting summary judgment to a contractor in a worksite injury case in which the plaintiff alleged that the contractor retained control of the subcontractor's work. Jeremy Haggard v. Blattner Energy, Inc. (No. 02-25-00056; February 26, 2026) arose from a 2019 worksite injury at an Iowa windfarm. Plaintiff worked as a rigger, hooking parts to the crane, signaling instructions to the crane operator, and serving as the crane crew's foreman. While standing on top of a wind tower's old nacelle without fall protection, Plaintiff was knocked off when the crane operator "let this load swing out of control." Plaintiff hit the crane's stowage container on his way to the ground, injuring his abdomen. Plaintiff sued four entities, including Blattner, alleging negligence and gross negligence. After the close of discovery, Blattner filed traditional and no-evidence MSJs asserting no duty. The trial court granted summary judgment. Plaintiff appealed. In an opinion by Justice Kerr, the court of appeals affirmed. NextEra Energy, which owned the windfarm, contracted with Blattner for "repowering" and with GE for equipment supply and restarting the turbines. Blattner's job was to provide engineering, procedure, and construction services, which involved isolating the tower from electricity, removing vintage GE components, setting them on the ground, installing and rewiring new GE components, and inspecting and certifying the completion of the work. NextEra would then inspect and issue a certificate of completion, freeing Blattner to move on to the next tower. GE's job was to disassemble and remove used parts that Blattner placed at each tower's base, of which GE reacquired ownership. Blattner and GE hired subcontractors for the work. GE hired C2 logistics, Plaintiff's employer, to disassemble the old nacelles. Blattner thus neither employed Plaintiff nor had a contract with his employer. Blattner argued that it owed Plaintiff no duty. Plaintiff countered that Blattner retained contractual control of the work, creating a duty. Blattner responded that since it didn't have a contract with Plaintiff's employer, Plaintiff couldn't show that Blattner retained such control. Plaintiff didn't dispute that Blattner had no direct relationship with C2 but instead "focus-ed] on the NextEra-Blattner repowering agreement - an agreement that [Plaintiff] did not file but said NextEra would submit for an in camera inspection based on the contract's alleged confidentiality." Plaintiff failed to produce the agreement in his summary judgment evidence, but managed to produce screenshotted excerpts of it purporting to show Blattner's "complete control" of the worksite, together with a screenshot of Blattner's safety manual (which specified fall protection measures). But because Plaintiff didn't attach the agreement and safety manual themselves to his summary-judgment evidence, the court had before only unauthenticated screenshots. Additionally, the court observed "we are being asked to construe the agreement's paragraphs in isolation, including without having the agreement's defined terms - notably "Labor," "Work," and "employees." Plaintiff thus couldn't show that GE and its subs were covered by the repowering agreement in the first place. He also failed to show that Blattner's safety manual covered anyone else besides its own employees. "Based on the record before us," the court concluded, "it is unclear whether it is even corre t to classify Blattner as theor a general contractor of the entire repowering project; the devil is in the contractual details that [Plaintiff] did not produce." What is odd about this case is that nobody seemed to know whether the trial court actually reviewed the repowering agreement, nor did they request that the trial-court clerk include the unfiled agreement in the appellate record. Faced with that uncertainty, the court "must presume that the missing repowering agreement did not raise any fact issues that would have precluded the trial court's granting Blattner's no-evidence summary-judgment motion." Plaintiff would equally have failed in defeating Blattner's traditional MSJ, since nothing he produced "demonstrate that requisite level of control over the operative details of C2's work." He attempted to argue that he raised a fact issue as actual (as opposed to contractual) control. But that would require evidence that Blattner retained "a right of supervision that the independent contractor [C2] is not entirely free to do the work in its own way." As the court stated, "[f]or a duty to arise through exercising actual control over a job worksite - what is essentially a negligent undertaking - an affirmative course of action is required." But even Plaintiff's testimony acknowledged that he didn't see any Blattner people at the worksite until after he was hurt, when they gave him first aid while awaiting the ambulance. Plaintiff also testified that two weeks prior to the accident, Blattner stopped work on his tower because he was unharnessed. The work resumed when C2 told the Blattner safety rep that a harness could't be used because there was nothing to which to attach it. None of this established actual control. It did establish that Plaintiff's employer "controlled the disassembly work at each tower" without interference from Blattner," which was "free to direct C2 on when and where it worked and to set minimal safety standards without becoming C2's insurer for its negligent acts." And, by the way, the testimony of Plaintiff's "safety expert" about OSHA multi-employer directives concerning who is a "controlling entity" have no effect on Texas common law one way or the other. The trial court thus properly granted summary judgment.
Quanta Operating Companies Collaborate to Achieve Solar Industry Top Spot and Historic MilestoneHOUSTON, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE:PWR) announced today that it has been named the top solar infrastructure solutions provider in the United States by Solar Power World. This achievement was made possible by the collaborative work of three Quanta operating companies: Blattner Company, RP Construction Services (RPCS) and The Ryan Company. The combined expertise and efforts of the three companies installed more than two gigawatts of domestic solar generating capacity in 2022 alone – a new milestone of achievement in Top Solar Contractor history.Duke Austin, Quanta Services' President and Chief Executive Officer said, "Being named Top Solar Contractor is an honor and tells part of the bigger story of how we are working to build a brighter and cleaner energy future for the country. To achieve a reduced-carbon economy, we must actively collaborate to drive the shift toward renewable and sustainable energy solutions."Quanta's renewable energy infrastructure solutions powers modern life, and with its more than 200 operating companies, Quanta is building, modernizing and maintaining energy infrastructure across North America and Australia. Powerhouse renewable energy engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) solutions provider, Blattner Company, was acquired by Quanta in 2021 and during its history has constructed more than 25 percent of the utility-scale renewable energy generating capacity in the United States
Meanwhile, Sarcos has signed an agreement with engineering, procurement, and construction firm Blattner Company to develop and refine its own autonomous mobile robotic system for utility-scale solar construction.
Shoals Technologies Group (Nasdaq: SHLS ) has signed a Master Supply Agreement with Blattner Company to deliver 10 GW of its award-winning Big Lead Assembly (BLA) and systems solutions over the next two years.